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It has double notches, and is two and seven eighths inches long. 

 Fig. 134 was inadvertently placed out of its proper order, but is in 

 every way the finest of these yet found. The material is clouded 

 quartz, and thus the flaking produced no conspicuous lines on the 

 surface, but the outline is very neatly wrought. It is six and one 

 half inches long, and was found in removing a stump three quarters 

 of a mile north of Brewerton, in 1896. It is flat and thin, and nearly 

 two inches wide, but its prominent feature is the number of notches, 

 five on one edge and six on the other. The base is truncate, and the 

 edges slightly curving to the sharp point. 



Fig. 121 is a good example of a thin and narrowly notched spear- 

 head of common hornstone, quite sharp, and attenuated at the point. 

 It is about two and five eighths inches long, and is a very frequent 

 form. This specimen is from the Seneca river, as is the next. Fig. 

 122 is also of hornstone, but quite thick, and slightly shouldered. 

 The base is long, and does not expand, but is rounded at the end. It 

 is three and one eighth inches from extreme base to the point, and is 

 typical of a large class, very widely distributed. 



Fig. 123 is a notable spear-head from Owego, near the Susque- 

 hanna river. It is of a blue grey flint, seven and one quarter inches 

 long, and is a very rare if not unique form. Either end might have 

 been used for a spear, had occasion required, but apparently this was 

 the office of the longer and slender part. This had mostly concave 

 edges, rounding to the point. The shorter and broader portion has 

 convex edges throughout. The whole implement is neatly wrought 

 throughout. 



Some stemmed spear-heads have concave bases; perhaps no great 

 distinction, and yet one which has attracted attention. Many others, 

 slender, but of the notched arrow form, are made of white flint, a 

 favorite material for spears, but obviously brought a long distance. 

 While fine examples they present few peculiar features. Stemmed 

 spear-heads with a convex expanding base are also frequent, and are 

 usually notched. Fig. 125 shows a parallel sided form from Skane- 

 ateles. It is of drab flint, two and seven eighths inches long, and one 

 and one eighth inches wide. While it is notched, the general outline 

 is a long pentagon. Much like this, but larger, is one from Queens- 



